{"id":48719,"date":"2023-12-11T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48719"},"modified":"2023-12-11T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:16:10","slug":"reindeers-visit-children-at-hillside-first-school-in-verwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/12\/reindeers-visit-children-at-hillside-first-school-in-verwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Reindeers visit children at Hillside First School in Verwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children at Hillside First School in Verwood had a visit from a pair of reindeer ahead of their Christmas rush.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tracy Pearson from the Parent Teacher Association organised the visit from N&#038;J Heavy Horses in Burley.<\/p>\n<p>Jingles, three, and Prancer, eight, delighted all the children at the school who were able to meet them. The youngsters learned about the breed and when asked what reindeer needed big feet for, they answered \u2018for flying\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Headteacher Dave Graves said: \u201cThis was a wonderful experience for the children who had heard all about reindeer of course, but had not necessarily ever seen one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who brought them were excellent and gave out lots of information and the children were really engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillside First School is part of Initio Learning Trust whose chief executive Liz West said: \u201cWhat a wonderful experience for the children \u2013 it is something they\u2019ll remember for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure there was a great deal of excitement when the reindeer arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it is great that the PTA organised the visit \u2013 parents perform a very special role across all our schools and were very grateful to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children at Hillside First School in Verwood had a visit from a pair of reindeer ahead of their Christmas rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[127,224],"class_list":["post-48719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-hillside-first-school","tag-initio-learning-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48722,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719\/revisions\/48722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}